B.A. Shapiro

Sun Oct 16 / 3 pm

In-person at the JCC

6 people, 6 secrets, 6 different backgrounds. They’d never have met if not for their connection to the Metropolis Storage Warehouse in Cambridge, MA. When someone falls down an elevator shaft at the facility, each becomes caught up. Was it an accident? A murder attempt? Suicide? Taut, emotional, Metropolis is impossible to put down or to forget.

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B.A. Shapiro is the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of nine novels, including Metropolis (May, 2022), The Collector’s Apprentice, The Muralist and The Art Forger, which won the New England Book Award for Fiction, among other honors. Her books have been selected as Community Reads throughout the country and have been translated into over a dozen languages. She holds a PhD in sociology and has directed research projects for a residential substance abuse facility, worked as a systems analyst/statistician, headed the Boston office of a software development firm, and served as an adjunct professor teaching sociology at Tufts University and creative writing at Northeastern University. She likes writing novels the best. Barbara splits her time between Boston and Naples, Florida. bashipirobooks.com